Meeting at the Seung Hwa ceremony (2)

Meeting at the Seung Hwa ceremony of Sang Hyun lee

March 24, 1997

My name is Sang Hyun Lee

Hell is the place where you cannot imagine in heaven.

In hell, you are hungry and suffering, and there is too much jealousy and discomfort. Due to such suffering there cannot but be much fighting. Everyone is uncomfortable. In heaven, you have freedom to follow your mind, but in hell you can't do even one thing according to your own will. There you take others' things by force and eat by stealth. People on earth cannot imagine how bad hell really is.

Sang Hyun, ah! It is love.

On earth, if Father introduces a story of love, He always speaks in reference to convex, and concave. If you come to the point of love you think about convex and concave but this kind of word, you realize, is too magnanimous. Calling out, "Sang-Hun-ah," that sound has such a feeling of love that it is like melting down everything. Having such sensitivity that must forgive even a brutal crime, being comfortable when near a person who stinks bad with the smell of fish, the thing which feels the passive feeling of ease and comfort. Calling it just using the word "love" is not adequate. It is just a little better; it is having a feeling without another envious word. When you take a step, or speak a word, or when you wear clothes, using just the word of "love" is unsatisfactory. God's word is that there is no phrase beautiful or deep enough which can express, or encompass, the thought of love. God calls out, "Sang-Hun-ah! That's love!" If you flawlessly embrace the will of love there will be no fighting or suffering on earth. There is no adequate way to elucidate perfectly the word‚ love. This is love.

The concept of heaven and hell.

In heaven, there is no way to worry or have any anxiety at all. Because you are living and going as one lump mass of love perfectly fitted. Hell is the place where you spin around on the edge of discomfort, worry, anxiety, and conflict, because you live in a world where you cannot know anything about love. In summation, hell is the place alienated from love, and heaven is the holy perfect sincerity of love. Simply speaking heaven is the place where there is nothing that doesn't have love, and hell is the place where there is not one iota of love. So it is possible for the fruit of love to bud and sprout and bring about the liberation of hell.

The middle realms of spirit world

Jun 1 =ad July 28, 1997

What is the middle realm of spirit world?

On the earth, what we thought was the middle realm of Spirit World is actually somewhat different. Amidst the many communities of the world, people worked to establish nations that are far away from service to God. People work to elevate themselves without concern to religion, they gather in places without a relationship of faith.

In this place, it is difficult to see something that resembles heaven, or hell. There are many similarities to the earth. As an example, during mealtime in the kitchen someone is working, someone is cleaning dishes, preparing food, serving food, everyone working together. If we look at the people on this realm, in heaven, people are very bright, and in hell, people are always uneasy and restless, but here people are always very busy and working hard, never resting. At some special event people are alive with energy and live well, but there is no concern whatsoever of God or religion. In this place, people hear Unification Thought lecture but some people ask foolish questions, like isn't there a world where only people alike live together? And such questions that make no sense, or are extremely simplistic. There you feel that witnessing will take a very long time.

The middle realm of Spirit World is not heaven and not hell, but has many different levels. It's a place where it is very difficult to get across to people any idea of God or Principle or UT The middle realms are massive. So it is difficult to explain. In this realm, the common people are very distinguishable from Unification members. Unification members are full of life. You cannot observe any difficulty among them. Also they are filled with peace and living enthusiastically. If they have some workshop, there is a lot of fun and games and laughter and enjoyment.

Compared to our members others appear very different. They have no pulse, no life. Their activities are very passive and lazy. They carry weary and tired faces. Why do the common people, as opposed to Unification Church members, have such a sad demeanor? It's because they have no hope and no desire. But Unification Church members in the middle realms have hope and desire because they expect and wait for God's special privilege to come to them, and they know God's basic will. Common people do not know God's will. They are not in a place of hope.

The common people and Unification Church members stay in different regions. However, sadly many members cannot stay in the Unification realm of Spirit World There are many reasons for this. First: Even though they received the blessing, one person deviated from the path and they could not accomplish making a family. Second: They received blessing, but lived without care of the will. Third: They received the blessing but their life went out of orbit from center, of which there are many cases.

They have the form and name of member, they are called members and so they came to the middle region of Spirit World. What do they do in this place? This group of members is always in the place where they can receive God's, Heung Jin Nim's, and True Parents special blessings and favor. How can they know this? They can enjoy time together and hear Divine Principle lecture and receive faith guidance. Therefore, they all have hope. Also this area receives a lot of attention from God and Heung Jin Nim.

People of the world can enter this middle region of Spirit World but only Unification Church members can enter the special classroom to receive the education regarding the direction of righteousness and justice. This is amazing. You do not really understand the meaning of the blessing while on earth. Because you cannot see it. But from heaven there is an exorbitant condition which can be received. Now the question of receiving the blessing, in other words True Parents are giving the blessing without price.

The reason is because of Parents. This is the time while True Parents are living on the earth they are giving great blessing to you. So we must go out to give the blessing to many people in our area. That is the way of giving blessing to others.

Paradise

Paradise on earth was thought to be somewhere between heaven and hell, but that is not accurate. In paradise people form groups within which they naturally belong. For example, Koreans go to Korea town, Chinese go to Chinatown, and Japanese go to Japan town.

Life on earth viewed from spirit world

June 9, 1997

How are the works, done by people on earth recorded in spirit world?

How people live life on earth determines what is recorded in Spirit World. For example: how a president of a country lived his life is recorded in Spirit World Whether or not he lived his life for himself or for the sake of his country is what is officially recorded. If your life was just spent on petty things or irrationally materialistic, or if you were simply an evil person, not a true person, it is all recorded. Just like if you write your own autobiography. As you arrange the final moments of your life you consider how you established your life's path.

God appears unconditionally, how wonderful if in your life you worked hard. Even the president of a country comes to Spirit World without a guard. The foundation of your life will appear in front of you. You become a complete spirit person 40 days after your life ends. During these 40 days you travel back and forth between physical and spirit world, and your place of residence is prepared. During this time, God does not intervene. Although your ancestors will cooperate with you, they cannot help you 100%. Just as if the wind blows, it does not care which direction it blows, so you have to work yourself to establish your residence.

No one judges you. Each person's seat of judgement is different. After you go to your home, if you get set up in the place where you desire, as far as geography and topography are concerned, no one will force something upon you. The guide of yourself will appear and guide you naturally. According to the way of Spirit World, the atmosphere of guidance or judgement is different.

You may receive some benefit because of having spent time as president of a country, although there were conditions that allowed you to be a large contributor to a nation. There is no room for not keeping a position of goodness; if you do not keep your existence of value then you will receive punishment up to and not more than your just desert. This is the spirit world. In this country of Spirit World, whether you are called the president or you are at the opposite end of the social stratum, there is no sway that class distinction holds over the spiritual foundation.

From a moral basis, we estimate the value of a person and ask to what extent did he live a righteous life? "In spirit world," a reporter asked, "isn't there some inferiority awareness among the lowest level worker compared to those with much scholarly achievement? In physical world there is a distinction between the learned and the unlearned." The answer, "In spirit world the field of your work is different from your scholarly major that you had on earth.

But your greatest embarrassment is not that but rather if you made some mistake in your life and you were ignorant of the value of your life. How the distinction of academic achievement appears in Spirit World is very different compared with the earth.

The difference between religious and non-religious people.

The difference between a person of faith and a person of no faith is enormous. This also has a considerable class structure, or several levels. While living a life of faith, a sincere person is able to get close to God's favor but even if you live according to faith, if you have no conscientiousness, whether or not you have faith does not matter. From a position of ignorance of God, a person who is alive in a common position comes to reside in a place where God has nothing to do with them. Regarding both religious and non-religious people, God's grace comes later to the non- religious. Even in heaven when a favor is bestowed there are apprehensions. God gives His blessing to humankind through the Holy Spirit, and as loving humankind, heaven also receives benefit. The time will come when you will move to a place that you desire, and whatever class position you are in your body will achieve freedom. (There is caring when people on earth pray together.) At that time, based on God's command, there will be movement.

What is the difference between unification members’ position and other religions' members?

It is a huge difference. I can explain this in a word. Spirit world regions are different. Here according to the form of life of each member, each one is a little different from another but, all realms in Spirit World are different. Here the thing which, as I've said is hugely different, is the position of God. There are limits to which people of other religions can hear or feel, or talk to God. But Unification Church members by all means are in a position to be able to breathe the same with God.

Here also there are several layers amidst a group. There are distinguishable revered positions. I'm sorry but, it is for the sake of our members that Sang-Hun Lee is speaking so as to enable and help us to not only adjust our lives here on earth but also to help for when we go to Spirit World This is because of thinking about going the way of True Parents. The 36 couples’ position is intense.

Regarding the class of families, this is the highest, but from this highest position, I truly cannot express the difficulty and hardship connected with it, and to have all of our own mistakes disclosed. As an example: when on earth, the problem of women, the problem of public money and all the other problems which higher families get caught in is not hell, but you go to live in God's house where everything of yourself is exposed.

You experience the high level without being able to speak a word. For example, We see at all times sex with a different woman. Also using public money for yourself, going to the bar, and falling with a woman, we see everything. That place is even scarier than even one word of hell. Whether of a low-level family or any other type of family. There are many levels according to the nature of the crime/sin committed. However, we are mostly in the realm of Spirit World closest to God.

There is also a prison where such people of grave sins are kept. How wonderful if you can go the way of indemnifying your sin gathering in such a place among those criminals. There is no place here where you can indemnify and solve your sin by yourself.

God's grace

Spirit people through prayer, tithing, service, and other such public efforts made for the sake of descendants on earth, the door to the prison will be opened and they will be able to leave. If such a one comes out they will receive guidance according to their position. After paying all your indemnity at what point will you be able to live peacefully? Until your descendants indemnify your sin. So if your descendants pray for you and offer their whole heart, the spirits who benefit from that will escape their misery. But your position is to escape only to come back again.

If earth people pray and invest their heart for you it inevitably shortens your indemnity period. They mostly do not, however know your situation. So you must undergo such a course of mental suffering for quite a long time. If your path of hardship is long in Spirit World, then whether your descendants on earth know or not, you are incessantly hindered. If ancestors are miserable, then descendants are also in an uncomfortable position. More simply put, when ancestors commit crime, descendants will receive the punishment. There is no way but to remember the way of heaven. You must go the way of righteousness.